7th Grade Teachers (8:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.)


Welcome: Complete a short survey and log into Voicethread.
Complete the Google Docs Survey here.

Agenda:

8:15 - 8:30
Welcome and Google Docs Survey
8:30 - 9:00
Discussion: Survey Results and Laptops for
Learning Successes and Challenges
9:00 - 10:00
Stations

Station 1 - Google Forms - Create your own

Station 2 - VoiceThread with a recorded
narrative from GarageBand
10:00 - 11:00
Integrate laptops into a lesson or unit!
11:00 - 11:30
KidBlog

Stations - 9:00 - 10:00

Station Groups
Group 1: Carol, Dave, Sue, Deb, , Elizabeth
Group 2: Sara, Matt, Kelly, Katie, Ross

A. Google Forms:
On the web.district96.org wiki page, there is a Google Docs reference page. Check it out!
Review the Google form the group filled out - Laptops for Learning in Seventh Grade, sort responses, review summary of responses.
Discuss Sharing - giving others permission to join/edit your form or your spreadsheet
Return to form: Discuss edit form vs. live form/ Accepting Responses
Create your own new form to collect data from students.
Add the link to your teacher home page or teacher wiki page, email the link to another teacher.

B. VoiceThread:
Hauser's VoiceThread login page: http://hauserjrhigh.ed.voicethread.com
Create an audio track for a VoiceThread in GarageBand and then use it in VoiceThread. (Social Studies)

Math:

Leave this problem for students. They must solve and then leave a message telling how they solved the problem.
On September 9 of the year, California became the 31st state of the United States. Solve this puzzle to learn the year.
My date is a multiple of 10.
My hundreds digit is a cubic number.
My tens digit is 3 lesson that my hundreds digit.
The sum of all of my digits could be the perimeter of a square with sides of length 3.5.

What year am I?

Social Studies

Fulton's Folly - The Invention of the Successful Steamboat
Text of the audio section: Robert Fulton The Steam Engine.pdf
Robert_Fulton.jpg
Clermont3.jpg
Cleremont.jpg

10:00 - 11:00

Lesson/Unit Planning or Wikispaces

11:00 - 11:30

KidBlog.org - an easy and quick way to allow your students to respond to your prompt; monitored by you; can also allow students to blog themselves
"Our" Hauser Junior High Blog (Ms. Tousignant's): http://kidblog.org/HauserJuniorHigh/
You are a student in my class; your username can be found in the drop-down menu and your password is hauser